Lower beds, west of Quarry A (Oligocene of Egypt)
Also known as Lower sequence of the Jebel Qatrani Formation Fayum
Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.5° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 27.3° E)
When: Jebel Qatrani Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1909. New carnivorous mammals from the Fayƻm Oligocene, Egypt. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:415-424 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 174031: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 23.10.2015, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Metapterodon brachycephalus n. sp.
Metapterodon brachycephalus n. sp. Osborn 1909 creodont | |
Reptilia | |
Albertwoodemys testudinum n. gen. n. sp.
Albertwoodemys testudinum n. gen. n. sp. Gaffney et al. 2011 sideneck turtle AMNH 5088, holotype, "one mile west of AMNH quarries in Lower Fossil Wood Zone"
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